alt Hacker NewsIt's kinda remarkable this works given how base 2 and base 3 are incredibly poorly aligned and make for a kind of worst case scenario when it comes to division (e.g. 1/3 = 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/8 - 1/16 + 1/32 ... and 1/2 = 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + 1/81 + ...)
It's kinda remarkable this works given how base 2 and base 3 are incredibly poorly aligned and make for a kind of worst case scenario when it comes to division (e.g. 1/3 = 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/8 - 1/16 + 1/32 ... and 1/2 = 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + 1/81 + ...)